Semiotic scaffolding of the social self in reflexivity and friendship

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Abstract

The individual and social formation of a human self, from its emergence in early childhood through adolescence to adult life, has been described within philosophy, psychology and sociology as a product of developmental and social processes mediating a linguistic and social world. Semiotic scaffolding is a multi-level phenomenon. Focusing upon levels of semiosis specific to humans, the formation of the personal self and the role of friendship and similar interpersonal relations in this process is explored through Aristotle’s classical idea of the friend as ‘another self’, and sociologist Margaret Archer’s empirical and theoretical work on the interplay between individual subjectivity, social structure and interpersonal relations in a dynamics of human agency. It is shown that although processes of reflexivity and friendship can indeed be seen as instances of semiotic scaffolding of the emerging self, such processes are heterogeneous and contingent upon different modes of reflexivity.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer10.1007/s12304-014-9221-0
TidsskriftBiosemiotics
Vol/bind8
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)275-289
Antal sider14
ISSN1875-1342
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2015

Bibliografisk note

Artiklen indgår i et forskningsprojekt om karakteren af forskellige former for interdisciplinaritet, med venskab set gennem forskellige discipliner som case.

Emneord

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • Peirce (Charles S.)
  • selv-refleksivitet
  • venskab
  • refleksivitet
  • Det Natur- og Biovidenskabelige Fakultet
  • biosemiotics
  • Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
  • Archer (Margaret S.)
  • Reflexivity
  • friendship

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